Other Publications

 


 

Articles and Longer Reviews

 

 

"Anxiety and Secularization:

Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth Century Invention of Existentialism,"

in Robert Bernasconi and Jonathan Judaken, eds.,

Situating Existentialism

(New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming)

 

“Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights,”

in Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, ed.,

A History of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming);

German version: “Personalismus, Gemeinschaft und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte,”

in Hoffmann, ed., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert

(Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, forthcoming)

 

“Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights,”

in Akira Iriye et al., eds.

Human Rights in the Twentieth Century:

An International History

(New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

 

“In the Aftermath of Camps,”

in Frank Biess and Robert Moeller, eds.,

Histories of the Aftermath:

The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe

(New York: Berghahn Books, forthcoming)

 

“This Seeming Brow of Justice”

(on recent liberal political thought),

The Nation, December 7, 2009

 

“Appealing to Heaven:

Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War,”

Hebraic Political Studies 4, 3 (Summer 2009): 286-303

 

“The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing:

Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self,”

Modern Intellectual History 6, 2 (August 2009): 315-41

 

"A Nazi Zelig"

(on Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones),

The Nation, March 23, 2009

 

“Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the Rise of Holocaust Memory,”

Patterns of Prejudice 43, 1 (February 2009): 1-16

 

“On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet’s Masterpiece,”

La Revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review 29, 2 (Fall 2008): 59-78

 

“Jacques Maritain: le origini dei diritti umani e il pensiero politico cristiano,”

in Luigi Bonanate and Roberto Papini, eds.,

Dialogo interculturale e diritti umani:

La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani,

Genesi, evoluzione, e problemi odierni (1948-2008)

(Bologna: Il Mulino, 2008), 97-124

 

“Marxism and Alterity:

Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality,”

in Warren Breckman et al., eds.,

The Modernist Imagination:

Intellectual History and Critical Theory

(Essays in Honor of Martin Jay)

(New York: Berghahn Books, 2008), 99-116

 

“Hannah Arendt on the Secular,”

New German Critique 105 (Fall 2008): 71-96

Special Issue: Political Theology, ed. Nitzan Lebovic

 

“Spectacular Wrongs”

(on the history of humanitarianism),

The Nation, October 13, 2008

 

“Intellectual History and Democracy” (introduction),

Journal of the History of Ideas 68, 4 (October 2007): 701-2

 

“From Experience to Law:

Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion,”

History of European Ideas 33, 2 (June 2007): 174-94

 

“On the Genealogy of Morals"

(on the history of human rights),

The Nation, April 16, 2007

 

“Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity,”

History & Theory 45, 3 (October 2006), 397-415

 

“Reply,”

H-France Review, Vol. 6 (August 2006), No. 89

(to Nathan Bracher’s review of my book Origins of the Other on the same site)

 

“Is Revelation in the World?”

Jewish Quarterly Review 96, 3 (Summer 2006): 396-403

 

“Antitotalitarianism and After,”

introduction to Pierre Rosanvallon, Democracy Past and Future, ed. Samuel Moyn

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006)

 

“Divine and Human Love: Franz Rosenzweig’s History of the Song of Songs,”

Jewish Studies Quarterly 12, 2 (June 2005): 194-212

 

“The Ghosts of Totalitarianism,”

Ethics and International Affairs 8, 2 (Fall 2004): 99-104

 

“Savage and Modern Liberty:

Marcel Gauchet and the Origins of New French Thought,”

European Journal of Political Theory 4, 2 (April 2005): 164-87

 

“Of Savagery and Civil Society:

Pierre Clastres and the Transformation of French Political Thought,”

Modern Intellectual History 1, 1 (April 2004): 55-80

 

“From l’Univers Concentrationnaire to the Jewish Genocide:

Pierre Vidal-Naquet and the Treblinka Affair,”

in Julian Bourg, ed.,

After the Deluge:

New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France

(Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004), pp. 277-99

 

(with Andrew Jainchill)

“French Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity:

Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography,”

Journal of Modern History 76, 1 (March 2004): 107-54

 

“Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism,”

Journal of the History of Ideas 64, 4 (October 2003): 639-57,

rpt. with revisions in David Biale and Robert Westman, eds.,

Thinking Impossibilities: The Legacy of Amos Funkenstein

(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008), 143-66

 

“Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention,”

Prooftexts 23, 3 (Fall 2003): 338-64

 

“Transcendence, Morality and History:

Emmanuel Levinas and the Discovery of Søren Kierkegaard in Interwar France,”

Yale French Studies 104 (Fall 2003): 22-54

(Special Issue: “Encounters with Levinas,” ed. Thomas Trezise)

 

“The Politics of Economy,”

Ethics and International Affairs 16, 2 (Fall 2002): 135-42

 

“Metaphorically Speaking:

Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the Problem of Origins,”

Qui Parle 12, 1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 55-76

 

“Two Regimes of Memory”

(response to Omer Bartov’s forum essay),

American Historical Review 103, 4 (October 1998): 1182-86

 

“Deformation and Appropriation:

Dana Villa’s Construction of the Arendt-Heidegger Relationship,”

Critical Sense 5, 1 (Spring 1997)

 

“Judaism against Paganism:

Emmanuel Levinas’s Response to Heidegger and Nazism in the 1930s,”

History & Memory 10, 1 (Spring/Summer 1998): 25-58

 

“German Jewry and the Question of Identity:

Historiography and Theory,”

Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 41 (1996): 291-308

 

Encyclopedia Entries

 

“Alterität,”

in Dan Diner, ed.,

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

(Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, forthcoming)

 

“Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History,”

in Aviezer Tucker, ed.,

A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

(New York: Blackwell, 2008)

 

“Existentialism,” “Jürgen Habermas,” and “Leszek Kolakowski,”

in John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds.,

Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004

(New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2006)